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...invited by the Athenian Parliament to become King Georgios III, his wife Marina being that most popular of Greek royalties. Thus last week Marina's Cousin Georgios II had need of what every doubtful candidate requires, a good & loving wife. Notoriously he has the opposite, and last week ex-Queen Elizabeth of Greece proceeded deliberately to embarrass her Gorgeous Georgios as much as she could by causing the following to be inserted among ordinary court notices at Bucharest, where her buck-toothed Brother Carol is King of Rumania...
...Died. Ex-Queen Joanna of Tahiti, 80; in Papeete. Born Marau Toroa, daughter of a British sailor and a native princess, she married King Pomare V in 1875 when England and France were intriguing for Tahiti. Queen Joanna favored England. Fun-loving, she shocked Christian missionaries with her private life, which included giving birth to a daughter whose paternity Pomare denied in a royal proclamation. Finally won by French diplomacy, Joanna made no protest when her husband abdicated...
...sickly one-time heir to the throne, Alfonso, who abdicated his rights to marry her, had just deserted him. 2) Alfonso XIII was rumored to have made in Rome the first move in his long-rumored project of obtaining from Mother Church an annulment of his marriage to ex-Queen Victoria of Spain, first cousin of George V. 3) Prince Juan, on whom Spanish Royalists now pin their hopes as "the only available son of Alfonso XIII,"* was declared to be engaged to none other than Lady Helen Stewart, beauteous third daughter of Lord and Lady Londonderry...
Sinaia. in the mountains north of Bucharest, is the snug retreat of Rumania's King Carol. Hostess there during the Jugoslav royal visit was Divorcé Carol's sister, ex-Queen Elisabeth of Greece. Italian newsorgans were furious. Rumania lately turned down a proposal by Benito Mussolini that she sign a treaty pledging assistance to Italy in case of a war with Jugoslavia. From Italy's standpoint the Rumanian Government, by consenting to a Jugoslavian state visit, was offering a rebuff to Italy, putting Il Duce's political nose out of joint...
...white bed in a small sanatorium at Frankfurt-am-Main last week, a deposed king, a discarded queen, a prince & two princesses silently watched tragic death end the tragic life of their mother. As if two abdications, bitter hatred and widowhood had not brought her enough pain, Dowager ex-Queen Sophie of Greece, 61, died slowly, painfully of cancer. In Doom, Holland. ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, denied permission to visit her, coughed with bronchitis, shivered with fear that the disease which had taken first his father and now his sister might some day kill...